but some dining and agricultural experts say Iowa should embrace the earthy fungus and even capitalize on it. What it is: ...

Discovered by the Aztecs, the bulbous fungus has been consumed in Mexico ... to keeping its cornfields free of what it calls "corn smut" and "the devil's corn." Huitlacoche forms naturally during ...

Tilletia Tritici and T. laevis are fungi which cause the well-known stinking smut disease or bunt of wheat. An affected wheat grain becomes transformed into a sack filled with several million ...

grain of all smut which may not have been blown off or separated before arriving at the scouring cylinder, and also scouring and polishing the grain; and fourth, depriving the wheat by a light ...